Top 15 Catherine Aird Quotes

If you can't be a good example, then you'll just have to be a horrible warning.

Though,' observed Sloan profoundly, 'where there's a will there's usually a relative.

He did his best to explain this to Inspector Sloan afterwards. 'A funny feeling, sir.' 'Yes?' Funny feelings were not encouraged at Berebury Police Station.

Although the last enemy might be death, in long and sad police experience, the first enemy could usually be found, Cain and Abel fashion, within the family circle.

If there was one thing which Sloan had learned over the years it was that you should never underestimate the element of luck in detective work.

Death went well with bare stone and it was the little crowd of modern men who looked incongruous.

Gone out to look for a hair to split, I expect.

Neither task appealed to a man of his temperament. One required action and the other thought. Both were anathematical to Constable Mason. His working life had been centered around the skillful ‘referral to higher authority’ of anything involving any effort.

Not even the Superintendent could play about with gravity.

"That's the idea sir," he said heartily, "Smaller villains."

You know, Eric, I could have sworn I heard a goat bleating while I was working in the slype yesterday evening.
I expect the Dean had separated it from the sheep, Eric said solemnly. Isn't that what clergy are for?

Sloane wasn't interested. As a police officer he was concerned with crime, not punishment.

Jezebel didn't drive up in a chariot.

Pax Intrantibus, Salus Exeuntibus

Dead and never called her mother, in fact,” misquoted Sloan, who had once seen the Berebury Amateur Dramatic Society play East Lynne, and never forgotten the searing experience.